Genesis 27:23

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He did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.

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  • Gen 27:16 : 16 She also covered his hands and the smooth part of his neck with the skins of the young goats.
  • Heb 11:20 : 20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the future.
  • Rom 9:11-12 : 11 Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God’s purpose in election might stand, 12 not by works but by him who calls—she was told, 'The older will serve the younger.'

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  • Gen 27:19-22
    4 verses
    87%

    19Jacob said to his father, 'I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.'

    20Isaac asked his son, 'How did you find it so quickly, my son?' 'Because the LORD your God brought it to me,' Jacob replied.

    21Then Isaac said to Jacob, 'Come closer so I can touch you, my son, to know whether you really are my son Esau or not.'

    22So Jacob came close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, 'The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.'

  • Gen 27:24-27
    4 verses
    78%

    24'Are you really my son Esau?' he asked. 'I am,' Jacob replied.

    25Then Isaac said, 'Bring it to me so I may eat my son’s game and bless you.' So Jacob brought it to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.

    26Then Isaac, his father, said to him, 'Come near now, and kiss me, my son.'

    27So he came near and kissed him. When Isaac smelled the scent of his garments, he blessed him and said, 'See, the scent of my son is like the scent of a field that the LORD has blessed.'

  • Gen 27:29-36
    8 verses
    77%

    29May nations serve you and peoples bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. Cursed be those who curse you, and blessed be those who bless you.

    30As soon as Isaac finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, his brother Esau came in from his hunting.

    31He too prepared a tasty meal and brought it to his father. And he said, 'My father, please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.'

    32His father Isaac asked him, 'Who are you?' He replied, 'I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.'

    33Isaac trembled violently and said, 'Who was it then that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came in, and I blessed him—and indeed he will be blessed!'

    34When Esau heard his father’s words, he burst out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, 'Bless me—me too, my father!'.

    35But Isaac said, 'Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.'

    36Esau said, 'Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice: He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing!' Then he asked, 'Haven't you reserved any blessing for me?'

  • Gen 27:10-12
    3 verses
    77%

    10Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.

    11But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, 'Look, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a man with smooth skin.'

    12'What if my father touches me? Then I will appear to him as a deceiver and bring upon myself a curse rather than a blessing.'

  • Gen 27:15-16
    2 verses
    75%

    15Then Rebekah took the best clothes of her older son Esau, which were in the house, and she put them on her younger son Jacob.

    16She also covered his hands and the smooth part of his neck with the skins of the young goats.

  • Gen 27:1
    74%

    1When Isaac was old and his eyes were too dim to see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, 'My son,' and Esau replied, 'Here I am.'

  • Gen 27:41
    74%

    41Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, 'The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.'

  • Gen 25:25-26
    2 verses
    73%

    25The first came out red, covered with hair like a fur coat, and they named him Esau.

    26After that, his brother came out with his hand grasping Esau's heel. So he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them.

  • Heb 11:20
    72%

    20By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the future.

  • Gen 27:38-39
    2 verses
    72%

    38Esau said to his father, 'Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!' Then Esau lifted up his voice and wept.

    39His father Isaac answered him, 'Your dwelling will be away from the richness of the earth and away from the dew of heaven above.'

  • Gen 28:6
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    6Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-Aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him, he commanded him, 'You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.'

  • Gen 27:6
    72%

    6Rebekah said to her son Jacob, 'Look, I overheard your father speaking to your brother Esau.'

  • Gen 32:29
    71%

    29Then the man said, 'Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed.'